This piece was made for an exhibition held at the Floating World Gallery in Portland curated by Sloane Leong. Based loosely around yakuza/crime noir films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi “Beat” Kitano, Takeshi Miike, Kinji Fukasaku, Seijun Suzuki, Yukio Mishima, Sogo Ishii and Shiny Tsukamoto, the show featured several artists take on the Yakuza genre.

My piece is a GratNin take on the Yakuza theme. It’s a movie poster for a film that never existed. An episode of Zatoichi subtitled Rising Sun Blues. It stars Nina Simone as a fated gambler drawn back to the infamous Rising Sun Gambling house.

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theComplex aka "Lanaé Mc'Levans" is Sinuous Magazine's vibrant Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director. She has been designing for 15 years and writing on the interwebs for about the same. She is most passionate about food, but also art, music, design, and social change. She greatly enjoys the art of foul language, voicing a thoughtful opinion, and incessant day-dreaming.